Three charged after check dropped at robbery site

Three people wound up in jail after bungling an alleged robbery in New York's Allegany County.

John Anderson

Three people wound up in jail after bungling an alleged robbery in New York's Allegany County.

Amity, N.Y.-based state police said the three from Niagara County near Buffalo drove more than 90 miles to rural Andover, broke into a home and stole several long guns.

On the way out, troopers said one of the three dropped a commissary check issued to him from the Niagara County jail just before his release on other charges. To make matters worse, they ran out of gas on their way back home.

And who did they flag down for help? An off-duty trooper.

On Wednesday, troopers brought in two of the men for arraignment to Andover, N.Y., for the June 29 incident. The two were in the Niagara County jail on other charges.